Shirt-waist holder and skirt-supporter.



-Patenfed Aug. 7, I900.

a. B. a. w. LAM B. SHlBT WAIS T HOLDER AND SKIRT SUPPOBTEB.

(Application file (No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RESTORE BIDDLE LAMB, OF MOUNT HOLLY, NEW JERSEY, AND WALTER LAMB, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNORS TO THE DE LONG HOOK AND EYE COMPANY, OF WEST VIRGINIA.

SHIRT-WAIST HOLDER AND SKlRT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,493, dated August '7, 1900.

Application filed May 19, 1900.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, RESTORE BIDDLE LAMB, residing at Mount Holly, in the county of Burlington and State of New Jersey, and

IVALTER LAMB, residing at Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, citizens of the United States, have invented a new and useful Device for Holding in Proper Position a Shirt-Waist and Skirt, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention consists of a shirtwaist holder and skirt-supporter formed, preferably, of a single piece of metalcomprising a plate with rows of teeth or prongs sloping and pointing in opposite directions, said teeth or prongs being formed upon two opposite edges or lips that are cut and turned out at an angle from the plane of said plate. One lip, with its teeth, is adapted to press against the shirt-waist, and the other lip, with its teeth, is adapted for the engagement of askirt-band. These lips being salient bring the teeth into more intimate contact with the garments they are intended to penetrate. The plate is also provided with slots for the admission of a belt and has a narrow border that extends along each side near the points of the teeth and at a right angle to the same. This border 'by pressing into the shirt-waist fabric helps to hold the plate in position and to relieve the teeth of a'portion of the strain that comes upon them, said border having also the additional use of holding the shirt-waist fabric away from the row of teeth upon which the skirt is attached.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a shirt-waist holder and skirt-supporter embodying our invention, including adjacent Serial No. 17,309. (No model.)

portions of the garments, to which the device is applied. Fig. 2 represents a face view thereof, on an enlarged scale. Fig. 3 represents. a vertical section thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the central bar of the holding-plate, D the side slots through which the belt extends, and E E the top and bottom borders, between which and the central bar are the slots 1) D. At'the upper and lower edges of the plate A are the oppositely-extending lips C, from which project the teeth B B, one lip with its teeth projecting upwardly and the other lip with its teeth projecting downwardly, each lip with its teeth being salient and punched or cut out of the material about the slots D.

Having described our invention, what we desire to secureby Letters Patent isl. A plate having a central bar, slots between said bar and the upper and lower borders of said plate, salient lips projecting in opposite vertical directions from the upper and lower portions of said bar and teeth extending from said salient lips respectively in the directions thereof.

2. A holder and supporter consisting of a plate having a central bar, top and bottom borders, slots between said parts, lips on said bar and teeth on said lips, said lips extending respectively upwardly and downwardly and being salient.

' RESTORE BIDDLE LAMB.

WALTER LAMB.

Witnesses:

AGNES BONIFACE, TEEO. H. MoGALLA. 

